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The Ambassadors
Henry James · 初版 1903 年
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……推文（哪怕我告诉自己这就是新的报纸），它们最难读。我经常得从头重新读起。虽然是个极端的例子，但看看 Henry James 1909 年的《奉使记》（The Ambassadors）里的这句话：我刚才提到的那种运作原则，在两人中那个刚下船的人身上，完全是本能的——是一种敏锐感觉的产物：尽管发现……会令人愉快
…Tweets (even if I tell myself that's the new newspaper), they are most difficult to read. I often have to restart from the beginning. Albeit an extreme example, here's a sentence from Henry James' "The Ambassadors", 1909: The principle I have just mentioned as operating had been, with the most newly disembarked of the two men, wholly instinctive - the fruit of a sharp sense that, delightful as it would be to find…
你说的“最初”是指多早？在 Henry James 的小说《奉使记》（1903）里，有个角色谈到进入广告业时说：“以科学方式运作的广告，就这样作为一股伟大的新力量呈现出来。”
How originally do you mean? In Henry James's novel The Ambassadors (1903), a character speaks of going into advertising "Advertising scientifically worked presented itself thus as the great new force."
……> Henry James 在写《梅西所知》中途从手写（打字）转向口述的案例，已被 Hoover（2009）研究过。然而，据这位 NYU 教授说，《奉使记》的作者对这种突然的改变泰然处之，而且尽管我们确切知道转变发生在哪里，文体计量学在这个案例上却无能为力；或者说，无法显示 James 的文体有任何突然的转变……
…> The case of Henry James’s move from handwriting (typewriting) to dictation in the middle of What Maisie Knew has been studied by Hoover (2009). Yet, according to the NYU professor, the author of The Ambassadors took this sudden change in his stride and, despite the fact that we know exactly where the switch occurred, stylometry has been helpless in this case; or, rather, can show no sudden shift in James’s stylistic…
……书，难度大致递增：0）Marquez 的《族长的秋天》 1）Mervyn Peake 的《歌门鬼城》系列 2）Henry James 的第三时期（《鸽之翼》《奉使记》和《金碗》）。3）Hermann Broch 的《维吉尔之死》 我强烈建议试试《歌门鬼城》，那是个写得惊人的奇幻系列。
…books, in a somewhat increasing order of difficulty: 0) The autumn of the patriarch, by Marquez 1) Gormenghast series, by Mervyn Peake 2) The third period of Henry James (The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl). 3) The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch I do suggest trying Gormenghast, it's an amazingly written fantasy series.